Displaying device



M. JONES. DISPLAYING DEVICE. APPLlCATlON FILED JULY [3,1920.

PatentedSpt. 26,1922.

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M Joizei' INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 26, 1922.

UNITED STATES MER'ION JONES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DISPLAYING DEVICE.

Application filed July 13,

To all whom it may cmwem Be it known that I, MERTON JONES, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof' Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in DisplayingDevices, of which the following is a s ecification.

This invention re ates to a displaying device and has for its primaryobject the construction of a device of this charactercapable of readilydisplaying written or printed matter.

An object of the invention is the construction of a device wherebywritten matter or clippings may be carefully preserved and capable ofbeing viewed when found necessary.

A feature of the invention is the novel manner of constructing andassociating the parts so that access may be readily had to the variousparts, and besides, a clipping or other strips of paper may be readilysealed to the indicating strip,

With these and other objects in view the invention will be betterunderstood from the following detailed description taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation.

Fig. 4: is a detailed view of a portion of the platform.

Fig. 5 is an edge elevation of theplat form.

Again referring to the drawing illustrating one construction of myinvention the numeral 1 designates a casing which may be of anyconfiguration or size, and having an open top provided with guideflanges 2. These guide flanges slidably support a glass plate 3 so thatclippings pasted to or written matter upon the top of strip 4 may bereadily viewed. This strip is wrapped upon rollers 5 and 6 which in turnare supported by the bearing plate 7 mounted within the casing. Eachroller has connected thereto a gear 8 connected by the endless chain 9to a drive gear 10 mounted on a shaft 11. This shaft 11 extendsexteriorly 1920. Serial No. 395,845,

of the casing and has secured thereto a.

erly holding the cli pings in flat engageuring the pasting opment withthe top eration. For this purpose I have illustrated a platform13 towhich are screwed the thumb screws 14 movable in the inclined slots 15in the casing. Curved flanges 16 allow easy movement of the strip overthe platform. By this construction it will be seen that. when the screws14: are forced upwardly in the slots 15 and then clamped the platformwill tightly hold the strip and its clipping in flat engagement with theglass plate so that after the pasting operation the clipping will bepreferably flat and may be readily wrapped around the roller. understoodthat this result may be accomplished in various other mannersthan'illustrated. From the foregoing description it will be seen that Iprovide a displaying de-.

It is, of course, to be different relation and, therefore, I do notdesire to be limited in any manner except" as set forth in the claimhereunto appended. Having thus described my invention what I claim is Incombination a casing having a transslidinto engagement with the undersurface of the strip and clamped in such position.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

MER'TON JONES,

